Il testo tratta della rinascita del fenomeno del nazionalismo nel contesto asiatico, e analizza l'ambiente storico, politico, sociale e religioso in cui si sta articolando l'ideologia nazionalistica in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Giappone, Filippine e Taiwan. Un’ideologia, questa, che come ebbe a scrivere Benedict Anderson, "rende milioni di persone disposte non tanto a uccidere, quanto piuttosto a morire per essa”. La monografia, oltre che a indagare le cause e prevedere le future conseguenze di questo fenomeno, indica anche quali potrebbero essere i rimedi affinché si preservi una pacifica coesistenza nella regione, e il ruolo profetico che la Chiesa potrebbe assumere in questo contesto.
CONTENUTO
INTRODUCTION
BANGLADESH - SERGIO TARGA
- From India to Pakistan to Bangladesh
- A Troubled Birth Requiring Three Partitions
- Bangladesh Today. Fifty Years of Indipendence
- Bengali or Bangladeshi: Nationalism Contested
- The Nation State Heir to the Colonial Regime of Power
- Religious and Secular Nationalism
- South Asia and Bangladesh in Perspective
- Conclusion
INDONESIA - VALENTIN SHUKURU
- The Genesis of Indonesian Nationalism
- The Challenges of Articulating Indonesian Nationalism
- Contemporary Indonesian Nationalism
- The Position of the Catholic Church
- Conclusion
JAPAN - TIZIANO TOSOLINI
- Political Nationalism
- Cultural Nationalism
- Religious Nationalism
- Neonationalism and the Church
- Conclusion
PHILIPPINES - MATTEO REBECCHI
- The Rise of the Concept of Being Filipinos
- A Community Broader than the Kin and the Definition of Territorial Boundaries
- A Faith Embraced and Expressed in a Filipino Way
- Education: The Illusive Freedom and the American Subjugation
- The Miracle of the EDSA Revolution
- From EDSA to the Current Populism
- Ethics Within the Kin and the Rule of the Oligarchs
- An Identity under Question
TAIWAN - FABRIZIO TOSOLINI
- Lessons from Taiwan. A History of Aggression and Invesion Resistance Nationalism
- Setting the Initial Stage: Tue Duch Presence (1624-1662)
- Under Chinese Rule 1. The Kingdom of Dong Ning (1661-1683)
- Under Chinese Rule II. The Qing (1683-1895)
- The Taiwan Republic and Japanese Rule (1895-1945)
- Still/Again a Colony? 1945-1987
- 1987-2021. Setting the Present-Day Stage
- For the Next Invasion
CONCLUSION